I, the only superpower on earth

Chapter 36 Returning

Mizuhara Mana practiced walking in the streets shrouded in darkness.

It was almost ten o'clock in the night, and there was no moonlight, only a little bit of starlight and street lamps on the street.

The way home was a little dark.

If it was in the past, Manami might still feel scared and panicked.

But for some reason, the tree carving pendant hanging on the chest was close to the skin, and a faint warmth seeped in, which healed the fear in Mizuhara Mana's heart.

"...why do you feel so warm?"

Such doubts arose spontaneously in the girl's heart.

"Could it be that it really has a mystical effect that cannot be explained by reality, as the shopkeeper said?"

Mizuhara Mana was thinking wildly, but soon Ye Gong was like a dragon, and he denied his conjecture.

"...Hey, hey, how is this possible."

Manami couldn't help laughing.

But at the same time, a more realistic conjecture suddenly appeared in my mind——

"According to the principle of 'projection' in psychology, people can project their emotions towards a certain person onto related objects... I will feel the pendant is very warm-could it be because I feel the store manager..."

Manami felt her breathing tightened all of a sudden.

Although there was no one around him, his cheeks were still hot.

"ah……"

As a young girl, Mana is not calm.

She also thinks that handsome boys are very eye-catching, she yearns for beautiful and beautiful things, and fantasizes about the appearance of men in occult or supernatural legends.

But...at least before today, Mizuhara Manami had never felt close to the level of "favorite" for male human beings.

However... Could it be that... I finally have someone I like?

The continuous warmth from the chest surrounded the heart, and Mana's heart began to beat thumpingly. The mysterious but handsome face of the store manager emerged in his mind, and his palms began to be involuntarily soaked in sweat. ...

"It's not like that!"

Manami almost jumped up. But as soon as the words came out, he realized his gaffe.

She hurriedly covered her mouth, and wanted to continue to leave the street quickly and go home—but at this moment, a few laughing voices entered her ears.

——

The heart was clenched suddenly, Manai looked around and found the source of those voices.

Using the dim street lamp as the light source, looking at the side road, under the wall surrounded by piles of trash cans, several girls were smoking.

"That is……"

Manami covered her mouth, feeling her breathing tightened suddenly.

She noticed that the girls over there were all wearing the same uniforms that belonged to Jingtai Academy like herself.

- Campus bullying.

These words flooded into her mind in an instant, making Mana understand the current situation.

But also because of this, Manami, who has lived in a near-greenhouse environment since she was a child, and has not experienced too many twists and turns, began to sweat on her back.

From elementary school to now, although I have been alienated by some people because of my hobbies and personality, at most I have been ridiculed and ridiculed.

The school violence that is shown intuitively like now is a field that is insulated from Manami.

"what happened……"

Mana swallowed her saliva.

She remembered some rumors about Jingtai Academy.

——It is said that in Jingtai Gakuen, just like many other high schools in Japan, there are some bad groups that take pleasure in inflicting violence and bullying classmates.

However, Manako never took such rumors to heart until they met today. As long as you don't see it, you will treat it as if it doesn't exist. Humans are very good at using excuses to cover up animals, and she is the same.

but now……

"Want to escape?"

Mana was trembling, and there was an urge to leave in her heart.

This is something completely irrelevant to me, so I don't need to be involved, as long as I don't care about it, as if I don't know, I can live a peaceful life as before...

Obviously think so.

If it was her in the past, she might turn around cowardly and leave.

No matter how much you yearn for the strange world constructed by occultism and supernaturalism, the foothold of reality is also cruel.

However, the warmth from the chest transforms the courage to support the heart.

Inexplicably, Manai held the phone and came behind the group of girls.

--"that……"

The habitual mantra, Manami shivered and shouted at the bad girls:

"...What are you doing!"

The laughter of the unscrupulous girls stopped suddenly, and they all turned their heads to look at Manami with angry faces.

The leading bad girl has blond hair, wearing high boots, and her wheat-colored skin looks like it was deliberately tanned.

Although she also wears the uniform of Shizudai Academy, she has cut the uniform into a miniskirt style.

The blond-haired bad guy glanced at Mizuhara Manami with sharp eyes, saw the uniform on her body, and raised his chin:

"You guys are also from Jingtai Academy? Want to be a hero?"

"Hey, what grade are you in!"

"Want to trouble us?"

"Damn you, I'll send you to the bathhouse!"

The unscrupulous girls clamored and laughed again. The blond-haired bad boy led his men and began to approach Manami with malicious intentions.

"It's so interesting. I'm tired of playing with this disgusting birthmark girl, but someone else offered to send her to my door for fun."

"If you want to save that birthmark girl, just put them in the trash can together, haha!"

Faced with the laughter of the bad girl, Mizuhara Manami's trembling became more and more intense.

But perhaps it was the warmth from the pendant on her chest that kept her calm. The girl raised her phone and showed the bad girls the call interface on the phone screen:

"Hey - I've called the police!

Manami's voice made the bad girls stop.

The girls looked at each other in blank dismay, and the leader, the blonde, frowned tightly.

She narrowed her eyes and stared at the call interface on Manaishi's phone, which undoubtedly displayed the call interface of the police station phone.

"It's really bad luck, tsk!"

She spat on the ground and waved to the little girls around her.

"Forget it, I encountered a psychosis today, let's go back first."

Saying that, before turning away with the other bad girls, he stared at Manami with a cruel smile:

"...Hey, I remember you—since I'm at the same school as me, I'll find you soon."

Without saying a word, Manami stared back at her firmly.

The blond girl spit again, with a distorted smile on her face, and left with the bad girls around her.

Seeing them leave quickly and their figures disappearing at the end of the street, Mana Shi finally let go of her anger, with fear in her heart.

"...It's a good thing that bad blonde girl didn't come to snatch my phone—if she finds out that my call interface is just a screenshot, I don't know what to do..."

She trotted to the side of the trash can, and the target of the bad girls' bullying just now was still leaning against the wall, lying down.

"Hey, you... how are you?"

Manami squatted down and looked at this girl with long black hair who looked like an enlarged version of a Japanese doll.

In his tone, he couldn't hide his surprise.

The moment she squatted down and saw the girl's face, Manai understood why those bad girls just said "birthmark girl" one after another, "ugly girl" said.

Because——on both sides of the girl's cheeks, there were large reddish-brown birthmarks, which could not be concealed even by her long black hair.

If the birthmarks on both sides were removed, she might become a rare beauty with her clear eyebrows and facial features. But the existence of the birthmark cut off all the possibility of beauty at once, leaving only a disgusting and alienated monster.

The girl who looked like a monster looked at Manami Mizuhara who was staring at her intently, showing no uneasiness at the surprise in her eyes.

Like the ice floe on the water, she smiled quietly at Manami.

"You... saved me?"

Although it is an interrogative sentence, it is an affirmative tone.

"Well, that..."

Manami looked down and noticed that the girl's exposed body parts—whether it was the neck, arms or calves, had large areas of red and swollen marks.

And just under the red and swollen marks, there are still scars.

Some scars are very new, some scars are very old, these scars spread all over the girl's body, turning into scars, and there are wounds that are bleeding.

"These injuries..."

Manami could hardly hide her wavering.

However, she was clearly an injured person, but the girl did not show a miserable expression of sympathy like her.

She smiled quietly as if those redness and scars did not exist.

"Thank you."

Then, look up to the sky.

"...Tonight, there is no moon."

Why do you still care about the moon in the sky at such a time?

Mana couldn't understand.

The girl's eyes seemed to be something out of this world.

The only thing she could understand was that the girl was hurt and she needed treatment.

"Should I call an ambulance? But I don't have the money...or call the police, but it may take a long time for the police to deal with it..."